Jefferson's American Empire
| Dates: | March 27, 2023 |
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| Meets: | M from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM |
| Location: | Museum of the Rockies |
| Cost: | $0.00 |
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President Thomas Jefferson's success in wresting the Louisiana territory from France created the conditions for increased commerce toward both oceans bordering the new nation. Accordingly, Jefferson tasked the Lewis and Clark Expedition with evaluating the prospects of commercial overland travel to North America's west coast. To this end, the navigation and source of the Missouri River became a major target of the expedition. Learn about the search for the origin of the Missouri River through a historical lens and how writer Jacob Brower used modern methods to find the true origin of the Missouri River in the late 1800s.
| Fee: | $0.00 |
Museum of the Rockies
600 W Kagy Blvd, Bozeman, MT 59717Tony Demetriades
Anthony (Tony) Demetriades received his A.B. from New York's Colgate University, his M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He spent 16 years in the aerospace industry and taught mechanical engineering at Montana State University. He has lived in Bozeman since 1979, was chairman of Gallatin County's Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee and of Gallatin County's Historic Preservation Board. He has a deep interest in history, especially the history of Western culture and the history of the American West.